[fishenrg]

I got a chance to go out a couple of days ago and I decided to do a little hike upstream from where I usually start. So after hiking for about 30 minutes I got to a part that looked promising and was farther upstream than I had ever been on this river before. Its a small river in this area with vegetated banks and many trees over and in the water. I see a couple of dark shapes lurking under one of these snags and sneak up for a couple of casts. One cast, two casts, three...wait, where the heck is my leader and fly? I have, or had, one of those woven loops on my fly line and, well, it had just come apart. It didn't unwind or anything, just one side of the loop detached...along with my leader. And to make matters worse I had no other leaders. But I did have tippet material so I figured I would just tie on 7-9' of tippet material and go from there. I learned very quickly why leaders are tapered, this idea simply did not work!